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Bona sera a quista casa... - Antonio Aloisi, Antonio Bandello - 18.99 Uccio' Aloisi and 'Uccio' Bandello are the recognized masters of the Salentine vocal style of gli Ucci. They sing all kinds of songs: romantic love songs, songs of sex and conquest, work songs and prison songs all recorded 1976–1979 and in 1997. The 79 page booklet includes commentary in Italian and English; lyrics in dialect, Italian and English; and musical transcriptions. Viaggio in Sicilia - Alfio Antico - coming soon-18.99 The Sicilian percussionist and vocalist returns with a small ensemble - Amedeo Ronga on doublebass and Alessandro Moretti on accordeon (plus a few guests) for a 'trip to Sicily.' Mater Sabina - Raffaello Simeoni - 18.99 Singer from Lazio, Raffaello Simeoni on vocals, dizi, saz, hurdy-gurdy, melodeon, F recorder, cuatro, samples, sinth, tarota, binju and organetto with Gabriella Aiello on vocals. The artist writes 'This is the story of Mater Sabina, from the tradition of my native region, the crossroads of myriad pathways, set in the very heart of Italy. Here pipers and fifers, migratory sheperds, impromptu rhymers, wandering songsters have tread this land, dragging their strains with the voices and tunes of our women, with the breath of Saint Francis. I follow their footsteps ... and carry on.' Guests include Hevia, Arnaldo Vacca and Isola Quartet. Musiche e canti popolari del Salento - Vol.3 - various - 18.99 The third volume of this important 'Music and Folksongs in Salento' series from Aramire. 55 minute - 16 track CD with a 96 page book of information (in Italian and English) and photos. Il Salento di Giovanna Marini - Giovanna Marini - 18.99 Giovanna Marini is a popular singer of Italian folk music. This recording is the result of research into the traditional music of Salento, the south of Puglia, which has very ancient roots and goes back to the ancient Greek habitation of the region. Nohant - Les Thiaulins de Lignières - 16.99 early music' interpretations of French music for period instruments Diam - Ablaye Cissoko - 16.99 music for the kora by Senegalese player HDQ - Duo Brotto Lopez - 16.99 A French duo playing diatonic accordion, flutes, boha, fife and clarinette Portrait de musicien - Alfred Mouret - 16.99 Portrait of a French Folk Violinist from Saint-Donat, Auvergne Chéticamp - Joe Cormier - 16.99 Cape breton fiddler accompanied by guitarist Edmond Boudreau Tourmenté D'Amour - Voix des haute-Bretagne - 16.99 Breton songs: Mathieu Hamon: voice - Christophe Caron: bombardes - Ronan Robert: accordéons diatoniques Digeridoo - Phillip Peris - 17.99 solo performances on digeridoo - 5 tracks, 68 minutes Jazz N'Roses - Félix Belleau - 17.99 French accordina (mouth accordion) and accordionist interprets popular and lesser known jazz and popular songs, accompanied by percussion and bass, with some guests on some vocals and violin Flute bansuri - Paras Nath - 17.99 Bansuri flute of northern India - Paras Nath is from a family of flautists dedicated to the art going back four centuries. The CD opens with the Raga Megh which is played during the monsoon season. 8 tracks, 70 minutes. Attitudes - Folia - 18.99 The quartet's second album is a mix of original arrangements by Gunnar Hahn and Hans Wahlgren, but also new tunes by Swedish composers, plus some belowed pieces by Piazzolla and Galliano. Klas-Göran Wahlgren (violin), Anders Eriksson (clarinet), Håkan Rydlöv (bassoons) and Lars Holm (accordion). Folia's first album was nominated for a Swedish Grammy in 2001. Iakoutie/Guimbardes - Spiridon Spiridonovitch Chichiguine - 14.99 Solo performances of Sakha music for the iakoutie (Jew's harp/tromp) Barsaat - Musafir - 14.99 Rajasthani ensemble performs what is often called "proto Gypsy" music (the 'what if Gypsy music evolved from ancient south Asian' theory), featuring an unusual blend of Jew's harp, tablas, dholak, bhapang, vocals, clarinet, sarangi and bendir. Features a guest appearance on one track with Transglobal Underground and Natacha Atlas. Quiver - KTU - 16.99 This powerful, agressively fronds group returns with this 2009 powerhouse of sounds. Trey Gunn / Warr guitar; Kimmo Pohjonen / accordion, voice; Pat Mastelotto / rhythmic devices, beats and noises with Samuli Kosminen additional beats and noises, Kosminization Until the Ocean - The Horse Flies - 15.99 The long-lived, wildly original old-time music visionaries in a brand-new CD! Richie Stearns, Jeff Claus, Judy Hyman, percussionist Taki Masuko, bassist Jay Olsa and Rick Hansen on accordion, organ and Moog. "Build a House and Burn it Down," "Carnival Lips," "Baghdad Children," "Drunkard's Child" and more. Book One - New Orleans Jazz Orchestra - 17.99 Founded in December 2002 by its current artistic director, Irvin Mayfield. They perform and present educational programs that draw upon the rich musical and cultural traditions of "the birthplace of jazz," where the group is based. Book One, the group's debut recording, is a showcase of Irvin Mayfield's original compositions for big band and features cameos by vocalist Johnaye Kendrick, R and B singer John Boutté and a singing/scatting turn by orchestra member Leon "Chocolate" Brown. Raixa - Maria del Mar Bonet - 17.99 For more than 40 years, Maria del Mar Bonet has been one of the major voices of Mediterranean music. Born in Palma de Majorca, she moved to Barcelona at the end of the 60's and formed part of what was called "La Nova Canco" (The New Song), an artistic movement that emerged during the final years of General Franco's dictatorship. Other famous members of the movement are Joan Manuel Serrat and Lluis Llach. This CD (the name of a garden in Majorca), was recorded in concert at Plaça Del Rei Barcelona and celebrates Bonet's 25th year of concerts in this venue. Era uma vez um Jardim - Maria Teresa - 18.99 Maria Teresa is an outstanding Fado singer with multiple facets and influences to her talent. Born in France to Portuguese parents, she sings the popular tradition of the country of her origins as well as that of Brazil. Teresa's sensual voice brings out the purity and emotion of this powerful musical genre, which she learned from her mother. Featured artists include Tarcisio Gondim, Renaud Gillet and Toninho Do Carmo on guitars, Francis Varis on accordion and Salvador Douezy and Zé Luis Nascimento on percussion. Comme un jardin la nuit (2 CDs) - Angelique Ionatos - 28.99 Ionatos is joined by the young Greek singer Katerina Fotinaki for a collection of duets with guitar, recorded live. The deluxe CD-Book packaging includes a bonus DVD with selections from the concert. Ionatos describes their 'walk in a garden at night' as a meeting that was ordained by destiny. She says, "When we meet people I do not think it happens by chance. I believe that we meet because we are meant to do so. When the time is right. Katerina Fotinaki is the 'little' sister I would have liked to have…I feel as if we were distant cousins who once played together among the same trees in the same gardens." Radio Romanista - KAL - 18.99 Band leader Dragan Ristic says of their new project: "We went from being this tiny Belgrade band to touring Europe and the US, hearing DJs blast our music in clubs, playing festivals, getting to spread the word and music of the Roma. What you get here is our live sound. We spend a lot of time touring and playing clubs along the Danube, bars that put on live music. This has really shaped our sound, it's Rock'n'roma! I strongly believe this album leads a new wave of Gypsy music." Serbian rapper Marcelo cameos with the band on the first track. 25 - Varttina - 17.99 2008 marked Värttinä's 25th year as a band. The CD includes twenty-two tracks taken from all their eleven albums and the Archive Live DVD plus an unreleased song “Vipinäveet” recorded during the sessions for their album Miero. The “25” album also features lyrics, fotos from their entire career and deluxe, four-color, digipak design with 24 page booklet. Partisans & Parasites - Daniel Kahn and Painted Bird - 18.99 A Detroit area native, Daniel Kahn has lived, played music, recorded, acted, directed plays and composed theatre music in New Orleans, Detroit, New York and Ann Arbor. In summer 2005 Daniel moved to Berlin, and, within a very short space of time, became an integral part of the city’s folk and klezmer scene, playing in different groups and musical projects. As a corollary, he soon formed his own band, featuring a rotating roster of some of Berlin and New Yorks best young Klezmer and Balkan players. "The Painted Bird" concocts a mixture of Klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk folk, kept together by Kahn's amazing abilities both as a songwriter and a performer; telling stories of outrageous incidents, poetically dark, tragically humorous and politically incorrect. Schamlos Schön: 13 alte Lieder aus Deutschland - Tine Kindermann - temp out of stock-18.99 Kindermann sings German folk songs accompanied by American rock musicians and arranged by Frank London. The result is astonishingly natural. There was something in these five centuries old songs that resisted obliteration. Mothers preserved them in secret; grandmothers and kindergarten teachers sang and sing to their children the songs of their own childhoods. Kindermann has blown the dust off these songs and made them alive, fresh, good as new. With her musicians, she has put them in an unusual contemporary intercultural context. She offers them to us, tenderly and unabashedly, songs of love and – in the words of Heine's "Loreley" – bygone ages. The band: Marc Ribot und Greg Cohen (Tom Waits Band) on guitar and double bass, Glenn Patscha (Ollabelle) on keyboards and Frank London (Klezmatics).

Maskarada - Taraf de Haidouks - 12.99 Special Offer! 12.99! - The most famous Gypsy band from Clejani, Romania (and one of the most famous from the whole region), present an interesting twist: music by composers who themselves borrowed from folkloric themes: Bela Bartok, Aram Khatchaturian, Manuel de Falla, Ketelbey and Albeniz are all given a fair turnaround by the Taraf's members, along with some of their own original music that pays homage back to the sources. Inventive and as always, full of wild energy. Rosa de papel - Marisa Sannia - 18.99 Marisa Sannia wrote: "We don't have to read poetry with our eyes , we have to read it with the voice. The eyes help us to decipher it, the ears help us to discover the rhythm of it, but it's with the voice that we can recreate it". The Sardinian singer probed the deep sea of Federico Garcia Lorca's poetry, choosing and collecting words and compositions of the great Andalusian poet. The lyrics of each song (except for "pequeño vals vienes" by Leonard Cohen and "La cancion de la mariposa" by Amancio Prada) were all set into music by the artist and performed in acoustic settings for piano and guitar Popular Music in Yorubaland 1931-1952 - Awon Ojise Olorun - 16.99 From the British Library archives, this CD explores some of the first recordings of Yoruba music. It includes sakara music of Yoruba Muslims, the guitarists of Lagos, and the origins of apala percussion groups. The collection includes recordings by some of the most important musicians of the time: Rafiu Bankole, Abibus Oluwa, Lasisi Onipele, Akanbi Wright, Julius Araba, Lasisi Layemi, Raimi Dogo, Yesufu Olatunji, Aiyeke and his Orchestra, Aminu Olaribigbe, Alhaji Muniru Singers, Theophilus Iwalokun, Irewolede Denge, and Isamoto Alade. Sponda Sud - Eugenio Bennato - 16.99 Hypnogol - Aurelia - 19.99 The second recording by the trio Aurélia: Aurélie Dorzée (violin, alto, voice), with Tom Theuns on guitars and vocals; Stephan Pougin on percussion. Guest musicians Michel Massot (tubas) and Sara Salverius (accordéon chromatique) fill out the ensembles unique, edgy sound in this slightly skewed tale of the sea. Almanach - Makam - 18.99 Makám is one of Hungary's most important carriers of the 'New Tradition,' a sort of folk-inspired chamber music with strong ties to various traditions: Eastern (ragas), Bulgarian-Turkish scale variations (makams) or the typical mood of the half-tone scales frequently used by Bartók, transforming Hungarian folk ballads with contemporary and jazz skills. On this recording, the voice of Szilvia Bognar brings special life to the very precise compositions of Makam's leader, Zoltan Krulik. Terregada - Psalite, Lidia Pujol, Miquel Gil - 16.99 The ensemble Psàlite join Catalan vocalists Lídia Pujol and Miquel Gil in a powerful exploration of the Spanish voice, lightly accompanied. The songs are traditional, the execution artful, the overall effect is chilling and gorgeous. Bastian Contrari - Patrick Vaillant - 17.99 French mandolinist Patrick Vaillant's unique new recording, joined by a marvelous ensemble including Bijan Chemrrani (percussion for Iran), Serge Pesce (guitar), Benjamin Novarino Giana (voice) and Lucien Massuco Rabaterie - Trio Patrick Bouffard - 17.99 The trio's second recording - Patrick Bouffard (vielle a roue), Anne-Lise Foy (vocals, hurdy gurdy), and Cyril Roche (melodeon). Just Like That... - Leroy Young: The Grandmaster - 14.99 Somewhere in the continuum between the Lost Poets and contemporary hiphop, Young and his rock solid, unmachined ensemble crank out hard, heavy rhythms, intense melodies and a stream of consiousness verbal onslaught of political, social and instrospective poetry from Belize. Highly Recommended! En Ruben Nilson-kväll - Jan-Olof Andersson - 18.99 Ruben Nilson (1893-1971) was a Swedish song writer, painter and craftsman. This is a tribute to his music by contemporary Swedish musicians Jan-Olof Andersson, Christer Karlberg and Olle Anderson The Rough Guide To Afrobeat Revival - various - 16.99 Tony Allen, Antibalas, Seun Kuti & Fela’s Egypt 80, Chicago Afrobeat Project, , Femm Nameless, Kokolo, Dele Sosimi, Mr Something Something And Ikwunga The Afrobeat Poet, Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble and The Superpowers. Second bunus CD is 10 tracks by Kokolo. Psalms - Khaled Jubran - 16.99 Innovative contemporary Arabic music from Palestine on oud and buzuq. Siluette - Gunnell Mauritzson - 16.99 The music on this CD was written by the world-famous baritone-saxophone player Lars Gullin. Mauritzson is the singer of Sweden´s folklore group Gunnfjauns Kapell. On this recording she has made Gullin´s music her own by translating it into folk music. Musicians include Ola Bäckström / Fiddle; Backa Hans Eriksson / Bass; Anders Hagberg / Saxophone, Flute; Johan Lövcrantz / Percussion; Roger Tallroth / Guitar, Bouzouki; Rickard Åström / piano. Zucchini Flowers - Mimmo Epifani - 18.99 The Salentine mandolinist's newest take on taranta is global I scope, yet deeply rooted in local traditions. Highly recommended. The Oxford Girl And Other Stories - Oysterband - special order-please e-mail me A special collection of all-new acoustic recordings of 14 classic songs from all periods of Oysters' history, re-imagined for now, to celebrate their 30th anniversary. These are all new acoustic recordings of songs from their entire repetoire. Highly recomended, if a bit over-priced. Head Of Steam - Brass Monkey - 18.99 The English folk brass band return, led by Martin Carthy and John Kirkpatrick who, between them, have played with almost every important folk and folk rock group of the last 30 years including Steeleye Span, Richard Thompson, The Watersons, The Albion Band, The "Morris On" Band and many more. The album features an extended line up including vocals, guitar, melodeon, concertina, trumpet, trombone, percussion to create an original sound with deep roots in the English tradition. "..a swashbuckling selection of tunes and songs performed so invigoratingly" says fRoots. Listen Africa To Appalachia - Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko - 15.99 2009 Juno Award winner by banjo ace Stone and Malian koraplayer Sissoko in "a polyrhythmic journey to Mali and back again" to "reconnect Africa and North America -- or is it the other way around?" With guitarist Grant Gordy, bassist Paul Matthew, Casey Driessen on fiddle, Bassekou Kouyate on ngoni and more. Listen Martins4 - Martin, Taylor, Carthy and Simpson - 16.99 Four guitarists- Juan Martin (flamenco) and Martin Taylor (jazz) plus scions of the Brit folk scene Martin Carthy and Martin Simpson - recorded live together at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow. Eagle - Mamer - 16.99 Traditional Kazak folk songs and Mamer's own compositions, touched with a renegade spirit. Guests include Bela Fleck and the late, great French producer Hector Zazou. Listen Legendary Cajun Accordionist - Don Montoucet Et Ses Amis - 12.99 11 tracks include"Eunice Two-Step," "Allons a Lafayette," "J'etais au bal." With singers Jamey Bearb, Kevin Naquin and Paul Fruge. Rom Kaffe - Acquaragia Drom - 18.99 The band says: 'We always meet down at the Rom Kaffe. The friends are there, the right aroma, the funny stories and a beautiful juke box. You insert a coin and the best songs start. Those for dancing, those for laughing and crying, those about heartbreak ... Full Descriptionand those to be sung drinking a glass of wine. In this record there are some of these songs. You can listen to them anytime of the day, better if accompanied by the taste of a good coffee.' Elia Ciricillo (vocals, guitar, tambourine); Rita Tumminia (vocals, accordion); Alexandru Gruia (vocals, double bass); Erasmo Treglia (violin); Marcus Colonna (clarinet, bass clarinet). Across the Divide - Omar Sosa - 15.99 Pianist composer Sosa presents A Tale of Rhythm and Ancestry that merges North America, Africa and the Caribbean in a song cylcle unlike anything I have heard. Guest vocalist Tim Eriksen offers up deep rooted American folk vocals against an Afro-jazz tapestry. Highly recommended. Listen Live At Shepherds Bush Empire (PAL DVD) - Bellowhead - 24.99 The carnival folk big band are captured live during their Burlesque tour at their sold-out London Shepherds Bush Empire show on September 26th 2007. This is the first ever official DVD from the much loved 11-piece group. In addition to the 98 minute concert, the DVD follows the group off stage and on the road with over an hour of bonus documentaries and interviews. PAL DVD Only Live in London - Leonard Cohen - 21.95 2 CDs, 25 songs - recorded live at London's O2 Arena in July 2008. "Dance Me to the End of Love," "Bird on the Wire," "Suzanne," "First We Take Manhattan," "Sisters of Mercy" and more. Highly recommended Mesdames Et Messieurs! - Le Vent Du Nord - 16.99 Live performance provides 13 rousing cuts of their most popular selections, such as "La Traversee," "Petit Reve III," "Vive L'amour," more Banda Olifante - Banda Olifante - 18.99 Somewhere between an Italian municipal brass band and The Thndering Herd you will find the music of Olifante.. At home with Mediterranean tradition and jazz, Afrobeat and klezmer. Guests include horn player Frank London, accordionist Simone Zanchini, Senegalese drummer As Niang and French tuba player Michel Godard. Thoroughly unique, highly recommended. Carnaval So Ano Que Vem - Orquestra Imperial - 18.99 The long-awaited debut by the Brazilian group, a 19 piece band that includes Kassin, Domenico, Moreno Veloso trio, Thalma de Freitas, Wilson das Neves (Ipanemas) and many more talented artists from the Brazilian rock, pop and electronica scene. Orquestra Imperial offers a panoramic snap-shot of Brazil's new generation of creative talent and their collective interpretation on the golden-age of samba is neither sepia toned or nostalgic - it's kaleidoscopic. Listen Volume 3: Dioba - Rail Band - 19.99 2 CD set: The third and best of the Rail Band series features some fo the band's best work from 1970 to 1983 and includes performances by Salif Keita, Mory Kante, Makan Ganesy, Lanfia Diabate, Sekou Kouyate and Sekou Kante - highly recommended! Listen Senegal 70: Musical Effervesence - various (African Pearls) - 24.99 2 CD set: fourteen artists including Star Band de Dakar, Étoile de Dakar (with Youssou N’Dour), Star Number One, Orchestra Baobab and many others Listen Guinee 70: The Discotheque Years - various (African Pearls) - 24.99 2 CD set: Bembeya Jazz, Sory Kandia Kouyaté, Horoya Band, Super Boiro, Balladins, Tambourinis, Camayenne Sofa, many more Listen Mali 70: Electric Mali - various (African Pearls) - 24.99 2 CD set: Rail Band, Super Djata, Kéné Star, Super Biton, Idrissa Soumaoro, Les Ambassadeurs, many more Listen tout et son contraire - Michel Macias - 19.99 Accordionist Raul Barboza says of the Gascogne artist: "By listening to Michel Macias, one feels the earth with its sweet scents and hear the birds singing. The notes from his instrument tell stories, joyful, sad or nostalgic, as if they had always been stored in the magical box of his accordion. But it is undoubtedly his own spirit that speaks through this music and words are not needed to explain an idea or express an emotion ... I think that when his hands caress the keys of his accordion, Michel Macias can communicate everything." The performances are solo and in small ensemble with guiter, violin, percussion and bass with a few vocals. Herencia - Guafa Trio - 19.99 A unique acoustic formation with a contemporary and personal sound, they perform traditional Colombian music from classic composers as well as their own compositions. Guafa Trio is the first Colombian trio that put together contrabass, cuatro, and flute to perform pasillos, bambucos, joropos and other genres from the Colombian inland that traditionally are played by string trios. In the Upper Room - Philip Glass - 19.99 A collaboration between choreographer Twyla Tharp and composer Philip Glass. This disc marks the first complete recording of the 1986 ballet. The first recording of the work, released on Sony's Dance Pieces, presented only five of the work's nine movements. Also, Sony's disc heavily reinforced the acoustic instruments with synthesized tracks, presumably to artificially thicken the orchestral sound. This new, definitive recording using only acoustic instruments, as the composer originally intended. Al Gran Teatre del Liceu - Marina Rossell - 18.99 Recorded in the Gran Teatre del Licieu de Barcelona during la Diada, Catalonia's national holiday, it showcases the artist's continued revival of the traditional Catalan repertoire. The album twenty-three tracks features several guests, including Kepa Junkera. Aria Stisa: Canti di contadine e trattoristi a Torchiarolo - various - 19.99 Music from Puglia: Raccolta di canti a cappella in monodia e polifonia del Salento: canti ad aria e a distesa (aria stisa, appunto), canti narrativi, stornelli, canti religiosi e di lavoro eseguiti da voci impostate per cantare nei campi con emissioni "di testa" e adeguato uso del fiato. Bellina Che Te Piace L'Allegria - various - 19.99 "Canti e balli marchigiani nella Valle del Chienti / Songs and dances from the Marche region - Volume 1" The first CD dedicated to traditional musical music from Marche. - Dalla media valle del Chienti nel Maceratese virtuose suonate di saltarelli e castellane, ma anche canti di lavoro, stornelli a serenata e a dispetto, ballate e canti a vatoccu eseguiti con modalità vocali contadine. Fairbault, Minnesota 1939 - Oscar Hamry - 17.99 Oscar Hamry (Ola O. Reishagen) was the son of Ola Gudmundson Hamre from the tenant farm Hamro, belonging to Midtre Hande in Vestre Slidre. He was born in 1884, and spent his childhood years with his parents at Hamro. He had two brothers, also named Ola. Around 1900, one of the brothers bought the farm Reishagen. After a while Ola moved in there and adopted the farm's name. His other brother emigrated to the USA while still quite young and settled in Minnesota. In 1912 Ola married Ambjørg Sårrbu from Vang. They immediately emigrated to America, and later had a daughter. Migrare - La Moresca Antica - 12.99 Here's a new chapter in the research into traditional maritime music: following 'Marinaresca' and 'Li Turchi alla marina,' the leaders Umberto Mosca and Angelo Maffezzoli along with their artistic crew give us a fully ripened work with the themes of men and music and migration by sea. Special guests include Lucilla Galeazzi and Jack Coutts. Suonato coi piedi! - Andrea Capezzuoli e Compagnia - 12.99 Virtually unknown in Italy, the traditional music of Quebec is a kind of mélange of Scot-Irish music with French songs. Alongside the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and piano, its typical instruments are the melodeon, the oldest kind of accordion, which is still found in Quebec and Louisiana, and... the musicians’ feet, which make for a powerful rhythmic background in wild dances. Andrea Capezzuoli, who has always been very fond of this music, has collected a handful of classics of this genre and made a fizzy but at the same time accurate CD despite what its title would suggest (an old Italian refrain says that you do bad if you do using your feet). Trasudando - A3 - 12.99 This work has roots deep in the tradition, in the culture where women and men, elders and children, briganti and cumpari have all told their stories. This band from the Province of Bari, with their maiden discographic voyage, sails along the infamous A3, the motorway connecting Salerno and Reggio Calabria, one of the most conspicuous symbols of a cultural and territorial panorama that clashes with the pride and the desire for redemption of southern Italy. O Maria béla Maria - Coro Bajolese - 12.99 This CD continues the thirty-year career of the celebrated choir of Bajo Dora, characterized by experimental hints, aiming at an even deeper knowledge of the oral culture of the people from Canavese (the area surrounding Ivrea, Piedmont). This new work is entirely dedicated to Piedmontese ballads drawn from the Nigra collection, which are performed in the typical suggestive way of this cult folk choir conducted by Amerigo Vigliermo. Où Vont les Vieilles Lunes - Esprit Follet - 12.99 According to Alpine legends, the name esprit follet was given to spiteful goblins that tied the chains of the cows each other, made milk crudle, and turned everything upside-down in the stables at night time. Rinaldo Doro and Sonia Cestonaro, the protagonists of this new project, are not true goblins but enjoyed themselves in messing around in the world of folk music, with a cheerful and energetic CD: waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and scottisches dating from the start of the 20th century, together with curentas and monferrinas from the Canavese, the area surrounding Ivrea, Piedmont. Saré l'uss e buté fòra 'l gat! - Domenico Torta e I Musicanti di Riva presso Chieri - 12.99 Following over ten years of activity, here it is at last their maiden-voyage CD: the fruit of one of the most creative Italian folk group astride music and drama well seasoned with humour. Marcette, one-step, fox-trot, waltz, mazurka, polka, brando, curenta, beguine, tango, and popular tunes from the flourishing Italian tradition alternate in a most longed for CD. Leaded by histrionic Domenico "Tasché" Torta, the eight multi-instrument Musicanti are able to studio reproduce the same cheerful but keen atmosphere of their live performances. Scuzà-ou aquì - Trigomigo - 12.99 In Varaita Valley, Southern Piedmont, many songs end with ‘scuzà-ou aquì! (excuse me!) to thank the audience for its patience. Trigomigo would also like to thank the audience for the patience awaiting for this recording. Their extensive long research, transcriptions, corrections and careful comparisons, has produced versions of traditional lyrics extremely respectful of the sources, re-dressed in the band’s personal re-arrangements. Patrick Vaillant is their special guest on a few of the tracks. Far coasts... and lost tracks - Aes Dana - 12.99 In June 2007 a sudden and unforgiving illness took the life of Giuseppe Leopizzi, musician, composer, fine arranger as well as founder of Aes Dana in the 1980s. On the first anniversary of his death FolkClub decided to fulfill one of Giuseppe’s dreams: to reprint in digital form the first Aes Dana recording, published in 1987. The track-list is represented here in its original format, but with the addition of three unpublished tracks. La crava mangia ij more - Ensemble Sinigaglia - 12.99 Enrico Negro, Mario Cosco, and Ignazio Viola are three skilled guitarists from Turin, already known by classical-music enthusiasts as Trio Vivaldi. But since music has no strict borders, it was not difficult for themn to trespas into the folk repertoire. Their guitars’ melodies intertwine with Paola Lombardo’s perfect voice to pay tribute to Leone Sinigaglia, the great father of the traditional Piedmontese patrimony of songs. Je n'irai plus aux champs - Picotage - 12.99 Following their collection dedicated to Christmas carols, the band is engaged again on the repertoire of Central France. This production is clearly focussed on traditional sounds, but Picotage worked to carefully mix them up with a progressive flair, defining their own music as 'musique d’Hammond' rather than musique du monde.

En gang og altid - Helene Blum - 16.99 Burning Fields - Harald Haugaard - 16.99 The Definitive… 75th Anniversary Edition - Charley Patton - 24.99 3 CDs & 1 DVD. Compilation of 60 tracks, spotlighting his influences, contemporaries, and songs from Charley himself. Featuring Son House, Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, others. The DVD, "Talkin' Patton", features interviews with musicians, musicologists, historians, and others. Also, shows new footage of Dockery's plantation where he was raised. Is This Tomorrow (2 discs) - The Henrys - 15.99 The new CD/DVD combo from this most eclectic band is coming in late June, 2009. This is not just a CD, it is a CD/DVD package. 2-disc set is about 2 hours of music, copious photography, home theatre (5.1) sound, a pdf file with song info, and the tactile kicks of the 3x2 panel recycled paper digipak packaging. Highly Recommended The Aleppo Suites (3 CD set) - Hassan Haffar - 56.99 This three CD set of suites consist of various poems in free form that are set to music and sung. Each suite has its own flavor. Interpretation varies according to the different schools and singers, who evoke three separate aspects of existence in love poems, bacchic songs and poems about nature. These may be used alternately, but they all express a single emotion: yearning for the beloved. Haffar's musical and vocal skills blend introspection and sensuality and these three albums confirm him to be a master of the genre. Songs and Morin Khuur - Various Artists - 17.99 This selection of music from Mongolia features "Long" songs (where the voice covers a very wide register in a single breath), "short" songs (very lively in expression), Khoomii diphonic singing (where the performer sings at least two notes at the same time) and works with the emblematic Morin Khuur "horse head" fiddle. They are all remarkable examples of artistic expression, at times stupefying, from a fascinating nomadic culture with a long and rich cultural tradition. Rishte - Najma Akhtar, Gary Lucas - 17.99 Najma Akhtar is an English-born singer of South Asian ancestry. Her unique and distinctive styles ranges from fusions of jazz with Indian ghazals and bhajans (love songs and spiritual songs), Indian semi-classical vocals and the occasional Bollywood hit. Gary Lucas is an American guitarist, a GRAMMY nominated songwriter, and an international recording artist with over a dozen solo albums to date as well as a soundtrack composer for film and television. He has been described as "one of the best and most original guitarists in America" a "legendary leftfield guitarist" and one of "the most innovative and challenging guitarists playing today." Listen Veena Dreams - Raghunath Manet - 18.99 Indian artist Raghunath Manet is skilled in both dance and music. He studied dance with Pondicherry M.S Nathan, Kalakshetra and Ram Gopal, vocal music with Gnanamani Pillai and veena under Gurus Chidambaran Kaumati Sankara Iyer, Rajeshwari Padmanaban and Ranganayaki Rajagopalan. His technique and the purity of style have made him known for his performances of Bharata natyam, India's most ancient dance form. He knows how to create a perfect fusion between music and dance, which is the secret of his great classical artistry. He was the first Indian choreographer to perform in Opera de Paris in France and at the Grimaldi Theatre in Monaco for the Royal family, on the occasion of the first "Nijinsky" dance awards - a historic event in the world of dance. Sarabah: Tales from the Flipside of Paradise - Sister Fa - 19.99 Senegal's 'Queen of hip-hop.' For a woman to break through in an almost exclusively male field within a male-dominated society was a long, hard journey. Struggle breeds compassion, and Sister Fa uses her international album debut to speak out against the injustices rampant in her native country. Warm and unmistakably African, her raps, in Wolof, Manding, Jola and French, roll elegantly over beats as well as traditional sounds (kora and djembe), delivering tracks far removed from rap clichés, and more influenced by 80s old school hip-hop than current rap trends. Askur (2 CD) - Kristian Blak and Yggdrasil - 22.99 Yggdrasil is a Nordic ensemble based in the Faroe Islands, formed in 1981 by composer and pianist Kristian Blak. The ensemble has a repertoire that encompasses a wide range of genres - from free jazz to classical - and expressions - from humor and beauty to disaster and destruction. This is a 2 CD cololection fo live concerts from 1982- 2006. Artists in these shows include Anders Hagberg - Anders Jormin - Angelika Nielsen - Annika Johannesen - Aviaja Lumholt - Brandur Jacobsen - Eivør Pálsdóttir - Ernst Dalsgarð - Heðin Ziska Davidsen - Herfinnur Árnafjall - John Tchicai - Kári Sverrisson - Karin Korpelainen - Kristian Blak - Lelle Kullgren - Mia Káradóttir - Mikael Blak - Morten Carlsen - Ólavur Øster - Philippe Carré - Sunleif Rasmussen - Tarira - Tore Brunborg - Villu Veski Lumix - Rinneradio - 16.99 Jsem hlína, jsem strom, jsem stro - Vladimir Vaclavek - 15.99 I am the soil, I am the Tree, I am the machine' Archive Live (PAL DVD) - Varttina - 27.99 DVD (in PAL format) includes highlights (49 minutes) of their 20th Anniversary Concert at Aleksanterin Teatteri in Helsinki; 15 additional archival TV and video clips from Värttinä’s career 1985-2005, plus interviews, photos, bios, etc. Allt vid den ljusa stjärnan - Ranarim - coming soon-18.99 Traditional Christmas songs from Sweden Foogy - Catriona McKay and Olov Johansson - 16.99 They met in Stockholm 2002 to share a concert with their bands, Väsen from Sweden and Shetland based Fiddlers' Bid. Backstage before the concert Catriona asked Olov "Do you know this one?" and played Eric Sahlström's Spelmansglädje. Join their exploration of traditional and new music from Scotland and Sweden, the sound of Scottish harp and Swedish nyckelharpa. Plateau - Soname - 18.99 In Soname's autobiography 'Child in Tibe't she relates the story of her triumph over adversity, told against the backdrop of a turbulent and dangerous Tibet. Soname was born in the harsh Tibetan countryside during the Chinese occupation. When she was just sixteen, she risked death in a freedom trek across the Himalayas, finally arriving in Dharamsala, home in exile of the Dalai Lama, and later to England, where she met and married an Englishman. Plateau was recorded in London and Kolkata and features UK and Indian musicians including tabla maestro Tanmoy Bose. Soname composed all the material and sings in Tibetan throughout, her vocals evocative of the mountains and culture she has left so far behind. Festival of San Miguel Tzinacapan - Various - 18.99 Traditional,. local music from a Nahuat village situated in a lush, mountainous region in Puebla Stae, Mexico. The language spoken in this village is related to Nahuatl, a language more commonly known abroad under the exotic name "Aztec."In Nahuatl, Tzinacapan means "Bat Springs." As in all the villages in the Sierra Norte of Puebla, life in San Miguel Tzinacapan follows the agricultural rhythms of maize and coffee and the ebb and flow of the fog banks that relentlessly blot out and recreate its landscape. Sahrauis: Music of Western Sahara - various - 43.99 3 CD box set with a substantial illustrated and illuminating book covers a vast range of the music from the Saharawi, a nomadic tribe in the western Sahara that is working towards independence from Morocco, currently and primarily living in Algerian camps. Actuaciones Historicas (2 CDs) - Antonio Mairena - 19.99 Antonio Mairena (b. Seville, Spain, 1909-d. Seville, 1983) was a Gypsy flamenco singer who led a revival of traditional flamenco starting in the 1950s. This 14 song, 2 CD set covers his historic recording career from the 70s until his death and includes some epic works, some up to up to 12 minutes long, of breathtaking performances. Sospiro - Faraualla - 17.99 Sospiro (whisper) is the third recording by the female vocal ensemble Faraualla. The name of the group derives from a deep hollow in the Murgia, the plateau of Puglia, a mysterious place that has inspired singers Teresa Vallarella, Gabriella Schiavone, Loredana Perrini and Paola Arnesano. They are joined by percussionists Cesare Pastanella and Pippo Ark D'Ambrosio. Riyad al-hubb, musiques d'al-Andalus - Al Arabi, Lefeuvre, Delgado - 19.99 Available again: A collaboration of musicians from Spain, France and Morocco give new meaning to trans-Andalus, with a blend of orth African, Occitan and just pure non-geographic ingenuity. Maktub - Orquestra Arab de Barcelona - 18.99 From Catalonia in Spain, their music is based on traditional Arab sources, specifically from Moroccan and Andalucian cultures and the Sufi traditions, but also contemporary jazz and other types of Mediterranean music. Leader Mohamed Soulimane is originally from Chefchaouen, Morocco while band mates Jordi Gaig and Joan Rectoret are native Catalans. Barcelona has absorbed Arabic culture to such extent that it now just another facet of Spain's cultural kaleidoscope. The CD also features Paco Ibáñez, Omar Sosa and Sergio Ramos (former drummer with Ojos de Brujo). Simelibärg: Mélodies et danses anciennes de Suisse allemande - Alpbarock, ves Rechsteiner - 19.99 The Alpbarock group comprises six musicians from various backgrounds, who came together to bring new life to old melodies from the Swiss popular repertoire. The surprising programme of this recording revives ballads, love songs or death dances hailing from non-written traditions. At the crossroads between tradition and creation, a result that offers a refreshing new view of the concept of 'popular' music. The recording was made at the Swiss National Museum, which conserves chamber organs formerly used in the wealthy farms of Toggenburg and Emmenthal between 1750 and 1850. Listen A Company of Voices - in Concert (DVD) - Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson - 21.49 (special order, allow one extra week for shipment) -The American choral group in a televised, one-hour concert airing on PBS. Repertoire on the disc ranges from classical works by Lauridsen and Whitacre to arrangements of popular songs by Carly Simon and Dolly Parton. Taped live in October 2008 at Austin's Long Center for the Performing Arts. Directed by Craig Hella Johnson with Bion Tsang (cello), Thomas Burritt (percussion). - NTSC video A Company of Voices - in Concert (CD) - Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson - 19.99 (special order, allow one extra week for shipment) - The American choral group in a one-hour concert aired on PBS. Repertoire on the disc ranges from classical works by Lauridsen and Whitacre to arrangements of popular songs by Carly Simon and Dolly Parton. Taped live in October 2008 at Austin's Long Center for the Performing Arts. Directed by Craig Hella Johnson with Bion Tsang (cello), Thomas Burritt (percussion). John the Revelator - Phil Kline: Ethel, Lionheart - 18.99 (special order, allow one extra week for shipment) - Inspired by his memories of being a teenager in Ohio and Pennsylvania, what he recalls as, "unforgettable and mysterious beauty, the sound of the strong emotion, unconditional and utterly lacking in malice, that I remember from rural religion." Sources include Blind Willie Johnson's John the Revelator, the Old Testament, and American poet David Shapiro. The result is a 21st century mass, featuring world-class string quartet, Ethel, and the six voices of renowned early music vocal ensemble, Lionheart. I was like Wow! (SACD) - Jorgen Van Rijen - 24.99 (special order, allow one extra week for shipment) - Trombonist van Rijen says, "I heard an American soldier say, 'I was like wow' when he was describing his violent experiences during the Iraq war. This showed me that words and exclamations like 'wow' are used to indicate that something has made a deep impression, regardless of whether that impression is positive or negative. That's what gave me the idea of finding pieces for my new CD that had all impressed me deeply for all different kinds of reasons, pieces that for some reason had given me a 'wow' feeling." This hybrid SACD also contains a CD layer with a video track. Cloudland - Whitetree, Ludovico Einaudi - 19.99 (special order, allow one extra week for shipment) - The pianist and composer stretches the boundaries of orthodox definitions of the classical genre and creates music that defies easy categorization. In 2006, Einaudi toured Europe with the popular German electronica artists Robert & Ronald Lippok. These artists' exceptional improvisatory collaboration is what makes Cloudland such an exceptional recording. The album title comes from a paradise-like retreat mentioned in Amos Tutuola's novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard. This is not the first effort to merge electronics with classical music.But today a whole new generation of musicians are as comfortable with a laptop as with classical instruments; Einaudi and the Lippoks have created a masterpiece for this new and growing audience. Gesualdo: Madrigals - Les Arts Florissants, William Christie - 15.99 (special order, allow one extra week for shipment) A batallar estrella - Al Ayre Espanol, Banzo - 10.99 (special order, allow one extra week for shipment) - Drawing from the extensive Spanish religious repertoire of the 17th century, the CD unites a group of works scored for double chorus, with a spectacularly charged sonority typical of the Iberian baroque. The manuscripts of these pieces (many of the performances are being given here for the first time) have been found in the archives of a number of Spanish cathedrals, as well as from those of Mexico City Solo dal vivo - Gianmaria Testa - 18.99 (special order, allow one extra week for shipment) - Solo dal vivo is the full-length recording of a solo concert given in the Auditorium of Rome (Teatro Studio) on May 3rd 2008. After so much travel, so many adventures in both human and musical terms, a live album became essential to ensure some concrete trace of it all. An album that will make its way round the world as a record of the close relationship that has grown up between Gianmaria Testa and his audiences everywhere. English Lute Songs - Robin Blaze and Elizabeth Kenny - 12.99 (special order, allow one extra week for shipment) Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute) - English Lute Songs covers a variety of styles by composers such as Blow, Dowland, Campion, Lawes and Purcell, with works voice and lute and some for lute alone. It is a disc that aims to look beyond the standard repertoire for countertenor and lute and hopefully introduce listeners to some lesser known pieces which will delight and enthrall. Robin Blaze and Elizabeth Kenny have performed these works together on the concert stage to great acclaim. Medieval English Music - The Hilliard Ensemble - 10.99 (special order, allow one extra week for shipment) - Paul Hillier and the ensemble in a selection of polyphonic songs and carols from the 14th century. 'The performances match the beauty of the music, a sound of remarkable purity. Their ensemble singing is perfection itself, and each part is exquisitely phrased.' - Stereo Review Satie: Avant-dernieres pensees (2 CD) - Tharaud, Faust, Le Sage - 38.99 (special order, allow one extra week for shipment) - With this recording, Alexandre Tharaud aims to serve justice to Erik Satie - the real Erik Satie. Chock full of surprises and humor, Tharaud strives to reveal the coherence between Satie's life and music. The first CD is devoted to piano solo works. The second offers a selection of duos, many of which are world premiere recordings. Featuring well-known artists such as chanson singer Juliette, violinist Isabelle Faust, pianist Eric le Sage, trumpet player David Guerrier and tenor Jean Delescluse, this album will also include a private Internet access code to listen to bonus tracks and discover more about Satie's life and work. China Connection - Zen Hu and Ning Feng - 24.99 (special order, allow one extra week for shipment) - Both born in Chengdu, China, they started their early studies at Sichuan Conservatory of Music. Hu, prize winner at the National Chinese Violin Competition, became the first Chinese member of Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Ning Feng recently won First Prize as well as two other special prizes at the prestigious 51st Paganini International Violin Competition. Repertoire on this disc includes duets by Bartok, Prokofiev, Hindemith and several Chinese composers.

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